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BlSMARck's TESTIMONY.
Another Witness Fixes the.
Murder of Haddock on
AransdOrf.

OI N Ou
ArensdOrf.
The Thrilling Story of One Of the
Conspirators in the Sioux
City Crime.
The following is O continuation of the
testimopyin the trial af Arensdorf for tbs
murder vi Or. Haddock, taken from the
sioux City Journal of March 3lst:
XoscHN1sKI ON TIE TAN
Yesterday WAS .sBlsmarck s"-Albert
day Us u witness IN the |
Haddock murder trial. 1t was one OF
Tie most important days Tor the prose
cul.va. bismarck as Tiil % Remember
90, aua as appears III lis eyiaencs, De-
camo we'll known TO the pubic as u cun-
eplclous figure 40 tnc Case through the
statement made, published not long after
mis- arrest IN San EIHnclsco and his re-
turn to this state and city, He claimed
in hat statement and in his testimony
yesterday to have been engaged 10 the
preliminary conspiracy to assault DR..
Haddock, at we'll as to have been
AN EYE WITNESS
to the actual scene of the murder. His
testimony therefore covers almost the
whole length and bresdth Of the crime,
and q large share of the details OF Its
preliminaries and final enactment.
There was Q general interest in him
yesterday eecond hardly to that mani
tested in Leayitt. Ifhe people thronged
into the COURTROOM till they were pack
ed into it like sardines. There was o
large attendance OF ladies-the largest
attendance of any day of the trial to
this point. A large number OF the BEST
known ladies Of the city had seats in
the conrt-room.
having o seat almost witnln arm 9 reach
OF John Arensdorf the defendant--was
A FIGURE AND A FACE
which attracted universal attention. 1t
wasthe face Of q gray haired, intelligent,
strong featured lady D stately form clad
in widows weeds. The face was the
picture OF sorrow over which there was
an expression Of dissemination to bear
patiently End bravely the terrible ordeal
which her presence in that courtroom
and at that trial involved. It was the
widow OF the murdered minister, Mrs.
Handbook BY her side sat two or three
lady friends. They seldom spoke to
her and she seldom spoke to them. She
had enough to bear. Sitting we'll to the
rehr, and perhaps most of the time out
OF the sight oil the jury and the witness
she quietly heard t4Biemarckn tell the
awful tale of the tragedy which widowed
her and brought the man seated SO near
her to the bar to answer for his life.
By no more draEaatic witness could
the story have been told. Bismarck is
AN EXTRAORDINARY WITNESS
one witness in ten thousand. He speaks
In broken English. He net know
the meaning OF such words as "conver-
sation. and Statement His vocabu-
larry is very limited and his pronuncia-
tion imperfect. He lis unlettered ever
in his own language. He has been
isolated from oil satisfactory sources fol
month"; az to what wa going on in the
world. He evidently has to perform
two distinct and difficult operations In
undergoing an examination, first that oil
translating for himself the question and
then tEanslatlnR the answer. Yet he
answered promptly every question put
to him in examination and In the hot
fire of cross-axamination hour after
hour yesterday. He went step by step
and often by the mos. zig-zag and COM
plicated route which Legal ingenuity
could find. through every nook and
corner, through every circumstance and
situation OF the whole crime, and yel
hardly faltered. He did all this with every
badge OF sincerity of manner, with every
surface and circumstantial indication o
truth telling The cross-examinatior
was batned. IL would not be saying th.
truth Get TO say that Bismarck had not
only the sympathy OF the general aud
ience but, as o rule, also it's judgment
and conviction towards bis side. III
Was listened to with amazsment.
THE DRAMATIC INSTINCT
of the man is remarkable. His gestures
where English words failed him, were
wonderfully significant, and his acting
on the scene OF the murder was 60 thrill
ling that the audience sat almost trans
fixed by the vividaess Of the portrayal
There was o pitiful scene in the after
noon, when q lady was seen to, fall IN 1
faint back over the part within the bal
allotted to the ladies. There was q bur
den in the moan OF the fallen lady which
hardly needed an interpreter to see tina
she wal Mrs. Haddock. She was let
into the Judges private room /, and afteI
q time recovered, The incident i'm
pressed all with its sorrowing signifi-
80 AN IMPRESSIVE TALE.
It would be simply impossible to re-
produce in a long hand report, or in any
report, an adequate photograph OF thu
evidence Of Albert KoschnIski. The
forms of dialect, the broken EagliRh
the gestures and facial expression-al
this. which may we'll be the life of the
story, must necessarily be left out IL
reporting. In the appended report in
spelling and other methods the same
plan is pushed as in regard to Other
witnesses. Ii will be remembered that
when KoschIiskI same on the stand this
morning he had been on the stand for .
brief time yesterday, aud that it was d
question put to him by the state which
brought IN the extended discussion
which consumed NEST of the day. Bis.
maick Was OF the stand bright aud carly
yesterday morning. andshls examination
began promptly, ODonnell leadiA.s.
ALBERT KosCHNISKI, ALIAS BISMARCK
Irelber said the preacher lived there
by the church, and that be would like
TO give $500 to have Haddock whipped
and give him . pair of black eyes,
Treiber asked if I knew Fritz Folger. ]
said did. He asked me If I knew
Granda, Folger's cousin. / said yes.
IrGiber told me to tell Granda iii be